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Bull Lake Dam (National ID # WY01378) is a dam in Fremont County, Wyoming within the Wind River Indian Reservation. The earthen dam was constructed between 1936 and 1938 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation with a height of 81 feet. [ 1 ]
TB Flats I & II Wind Farm is a 301.1-megawatt onshore wind farm located in Carbon County and Albany County, Wyoming, United States. [3] The project was developed by Invenergy and later transferred to PacifiCorp as part of their Energy Vision 2020 initiative.
Dinwoody Creek, Bull Lake Creek, Little Wind River The Wind River is the name applied to the upper reaches of the Bighorn River in Wyoming in the United States . The Wind River is 185 miles (298 km) [ 3 ] long.
Wyoming's geography of high-altitude prairies with broad ridges makes the state an ideal site for the development of wind resources. Other factors that positively affect Wyoming's wind power development potential include transmission capabilities, [5] the high energy needs of nearby population centers, [5] high public support of wind power development in the state (97% support), [6] and the ...
Boysen Reservoir is a reservoir formed by Boysen Dam, an earth-fill dam on the Wind River in the central part of the U.S. state of Wyoming. It is near the town of Shoshoni in Fremont County . The dam was constructed between 1947 and 1952 at the mouth of Wind River Canyon , just upstream from a previous dam that had been built by Asmus Boysen in ...
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Wind River Canyon is a scenic Wyoming canyon on the Wind River. [1] It is located between the towns of Shoshoni and Thermopolis and is a popular stop for visitors to Yellowstone National Park. It is accessible by U.S. Highway 20 and Wyoming Highway 789. It was designated as a Wyoming Scenic Byway in 2005. [2]
The first dam to be built at the Wind River Canyon site was actually in 1908, when Asmus Boysen supervised the construction of a small concrete run-of-the-river structure that generated 710 kilowatts of electricity. This early dam, located just downriver of the present Boysen Dam, silted up by 1925 and was removed in 1948. [1]